Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?